Flashing my BIOS failed, how can I recover?

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Pretty much what it says. The update of your bios failed. You may have the wrong bios update, or your board may simply not support updating there's no way to tell. You'll have to go back to the manufacturer and double check.

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Yea I managed to flash the wrong version :( (stupid me).

Long story short, I flashed my Ver 2.0 NF7-S using Ver 1.0 and now it doesn't want to boot, what do you think I can do? .. otherwise what a complete waste of a system :(

is there anyway to flash the old system?
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I flashed my computer, it was done successfully but when I restarted it stopped working. When it boots it's just a blank screen and has continuous beeps.

Please Help Me, Leo or Anyone.

i flashed my bios today and i did it with the right bios that corresponded to my model mb. I have a gigabyte ga-8l915g-mf and updated the bios using the gigabye bios update program. It said it had been successful and that i had to now reboot for changes to take place. I could either reboot or stay on doing my work, it didnt auto reboot so i assumed it was all finished and ready for when i rebooted next. Five mins later i was trying to close i tunes and i tunes being i tunes the computer crashed as it often does with i tunes. I couldnt do any thing but press the reset button as ctrl alt del didnt work. Now the computer will not reboot. The monitor says there is no signal, i am assuming it was a bad flash.

What can i do i have tried clearing the cmos by taking out the battery for a minute or two and to no avail. Can a computer technician reprogram the bios chip using another computer or will i have to buy a new one? Is there anything i can do?

I was one of the lucky few that tried to flash my bios. At the time I thought it was taking too long and pushed the reset button. Needless to say my system was unable to boot correctly. I tried to reflash it but the system couldn't even find my A: drive because it had not been told where it was by my corrupted bios.
I did finally fix the problem though. I called every computer dealer and manufacter I could find. I did find one dealer thet would sell me a new bios for my board but the cost was almost twice the cost of a replacement board.
I took this opportunity to finally upgrade my board and processor at a lower cost than buying a replacement bios.
My suggestion to anyone flashing their bios, is don't, unless you have done it correctly on an older board and thus very sure of the process and the amount of time it will take. If perhaps you are not confindent then allow a professional to do it. The cost usually is about $100(US) or so.

Posted by: Raymond at January 8, 2006 02:05 PM
snip" What can i do i have tried clearing the cmos by taking out the battery for a minute or two and to no avail. Can a computer technician reprogram the bios chip using another computer or will i have to buy a new one? Is there anything i can do?" end snip

Hello what i did was the following , tho i wouldnt recomand it to persons with little knowledge on computer hardware but i'll post this solution anyway . The program from asus messed up and i was stuck with a non working motherboard p4b533-e flashing under windows failed and i shut down .No more post i assumed update failed terrible tho it just said it couldnt verify .Lucky i have 2 of the same model motherboards .. now here comes the solution .I took out the working bioschip and put it in the non working board booted from a floppy with aflash [or simular flash tool ] on the working chip [dont push it down all that hard since we will take the working chip out when its booted] once booted take out the working bios chip and replace it with the "broken" chip . Start the program u flash your motherboard bios with and program it . I did program it twice but i assume once is good aswell .And voila you got a working motherboard and chip back.As said this is a tricky thing and u need same model motherboard bios but it worked in my case and i didnt wanna hold out on the info .

One simple solution may be that in fact the flashing took place correctly, however the system fails to boot due to messed up bios settings which are stored in RAM. This memory retains its information with a small battery.
You can easily solve the problem by removing the Lithium battery on the main board, then wait a few minutes, then put in the battery and reboot. 90% chance that your PC boots. Just press Del to enter the BIOS setup menu, then choose either "Load default fail safe" or "Load optimal settings". Save and reboot and see whether your attempts were successful. I've seen this type of boot failure on several machines and in case of bios update failure, this is the solution.
If it does not work at once, try to keep out the battery longer, and short-circuit the + and - pins of the battery socket.
Succes,
Willem

Followed Willem's advice on fixing a bad bios flash. I had flashed the bios on a Gigabyte K8NF-9 rev 1 board from F4 to F11 using thier @Bios software provided. As this is not my first MB BIOS flash I know the usual suspects to watch out for when doing this. All was well, no issues, rebooted - failure. Utterly convinced I now had a large paperweight, I unplugged the system, removed the battery, & shorted the battery pins. Put the system back together & it worked. I'm fairly certain that the failure is caused due to a mismatch in BIOS settings between the old & new versions that make the system unbootable. What made this worse was Gigabyte's online help is less than useless.

THANK YOU, WILLEM

Shawn

Hello. I've also had this problem. I have the ASUS A8N mainboard, and flashing the BIOS mucked up. While the program was running the program said that some kind of failure had happened, and asked me to try again or abort. I tried again and got the same failure. I then aborted. My PC worked for about 30 secs before cutting out. Now when I switch on my PC nothing comes up on the screen. It just powers up, I can put in CDs in my DVD drive etc, but the support disk feature didn't work. Any advise would help. Could this cause faults in other parts of my hardware, like my CPU or GPU?

I have the same problem i updated my BIOS with the right update cuz i went to hp and thats the update it gave it also siad it was a successful update i reboot the pc then it didnt wanted to pick up the monitor or video but later it did i reboot again and it never picked the video. i tried clearing Cmos and it didnt work..do you know how can i get a Bios Chip for my mother board and i dont know my motherboard manufacturers is there anything else i can do

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